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The Reports of Theophilus Opoku: A 19th-Century Gold Coast Pastor

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The Reports of Theophilus Opoku details the letters of a pastor living in the ethnically diverse and structurally fragile kingdom of Akuapem in the south-eastern Gold Coast during the 19th century. Between 1868 and 1908, Opoku wrote 37 reports to his employers ^^ the board of the Basel Mission ^^ which provide rare insight into the process of conversion, life in the newly formed Christian communities, and the uneasy relationship between mission regulations, local culture, king, and colonial government. The reports, written in a vivid narrative style, also include detailed descriptions of customary rites, conflict and cooperation between Christians and non-Christians, and factional disturbances in chieftaincy affairs. Opoku was a pioneer missionary in a rapidly changing society: his letters, which are richly introduced and annotated in this volume, are a testimony to the sincerity of his evangelistic zeal. See more
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  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Mar 2024
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780197267615

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Michelle Gilbert received an MA in art history from Northwestern University an MA in anthropology from NYU and a PhD in anthropology from SOAS. She did fieldwork in the Ghanaian kingdom of Akuapem continually from 1976 to 2015 and has widely published about the annual Odwira rite Akuapem history divine kingship ethnic conflict and the relationship between traditional religion and Christianity. She has also written about Ghanaian royal regalia textiles and popular art. She was Associate Professor at Sarah Lawrence College New York and Trinity College Hartford. Paul Jenkins has an MA in Modern History and received his doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at the University of Basel. He was a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Ghana between 1965 and 1972 and archivist of the Basel Mission from 1972 to 2003. Jenkins also served as lecturer in African History in the University of Basel from 1989 to 2003. He has published widely on mission and indigenous church history and on photography as a source in historical investigation and has translated extensively from the Basel Mission archive for scholars interested in Ghana and North Karnataka/South India.

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